Good  morning! We had such a fun weekend and spent Saturday in Asheville with Gene and Sarah.  We live about an hour away from Asheville and made an unexpected stop at Lake James Cellars Winery on the way. They don’t have their own vineyards yet and purchase their grapes from other wineries, but luckily for us they still offer wine tastings. Marathon training is sure killing my tolerance, I was

Last night was a fun night, we had Gene, Sarah & their dogs up for dinner and we decided to make homemade pizzas.  I put my brother right to work when he got here, he helped me out cooking up the meat while I was making the dough. We made one vegan and one non-vegan pizza.  On the non-vegan we had sauce, mozzarella, ground beef, bacon and pepperoni. On the

Before I get to one of my new favorite recipes, did you all see the kid from the Jerry Maguire movie? Dang, somebody’s been hitting the gym. This week I did not get to make my weekly trip down to Charlotte to go to Trader Joe’s & Earth Fare (the stores where I can get all of my vegan products).  I was planning on going yesterday afternoon but then there

Good morning! I have a really good and healthy breakfast to share with you guys this morning.  I found the idea on my new obsession, Pinterest.  I have mentioned Pinterest on here before & if you haven’t checked it out yet, you are missing out!  When I need a new recipe, that website never lets me down and it didn’t again this morning.  I have been seeing Cookie Dough Oatmeal

Good morning! I have the worst habit of buying too many bananas every week and I usually end up throwing a couple out because I don’t get around to eating them all.  Well this week I had 5 bananas that were way too ripe and decided that was too many to waste, so I went in search of a vegan banana nut bread recipe.  I love searching for new recipes

Yesterday Zach and I had plans to spend the day over in Asheville, it’s only an hour from our house and there are lots of vegan restaurants and some great people watching.  So we got in the car at a little after 10:30am and somehow Zach had managed to talk me into going here instead… Yep, that would be Charlotte.  It would also be the same place a Michigan bar

Last night we made one of my all time favorite chili recipes, it used to be White Bean Chicken Chili, but now we make White Bean Chick’n Chili.   I got the original recipe from my mother-in-law & it’s something I make all the time during the winter. White Bean Chicken Chili 2 cups finely chopped onion 2 tbsp. finely minced garlic 4 oz. can chopped green chilies 2 lg.

Good morning! I wanted to share with you guys a pretty cool website that has really interested me, Fit 2 Fat 2 Fit.  Starting November 5th, the website will document the weight loss of personal trainer, Drew Manning.  Back in May, Drew decided to gain weight to get a better idea of what his clients go through. Here is what he looked like in May: And now after just 6

Good morning! We didn’t have a very good turn out last night with the trick or treaters, unfortunately we live out in the country and only had 3 kids stop by, but they all LOVED Diesel in his frog costume!  Here are a few more pictures of both my babies from last night: Ok now for the marathon update, I can’t believe month 2 is over and I am halfway

Good morning! This weekend was so fun and I feel like we were going non-stop.  In case you missed the blog over the weekend, check out this Pumpkin Patch post to check out our pumpkins! Saturday morning Zach and I drove up to Martinsville, VA to watch my brother Gene’s race.  The last time we went to his race at Martinsville, Gene’s team won, unfortunately Saturday we didn’t bring them